Overview
The role will lead planning, performance management, cost governance, and productivity tracking for COSO Plants. The Candidate will partner closely with Plant Leadership and cross-functional teams to drive forecast accuracy, support financial decision-making, enable AOP delivery, and ensure financial discipline across capex, operating cost lines, and productivity programs.

Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Performance Management
Lead weekly and monthly performance reviews for key cost lines including Material Usage Variance (MUV), Variable Manufacturing Overheads (VMOH), and Fixed Manufacturing Overheads (FMOH).
Identify and highlight key variances vs. plan, driving timely corrective actions with Plant Leadership.
Support delivery of Annual Operating Plan (AOP) Cost to Convert (C2C) targets through insights-driven analytics, performance rigor, and action tracking.
Planning & Forecasting
Prepare accurate, timely financial forecasts for COSO Plants, clearly articulating risks, opportunities, and sensitivities.
Lead AOP development for COSO sites,



ensuring cost efficiency and alignment with broader business goals.
Productivity & Projects Governance
Track, report, and support execution of productivity initiatives, ensuring timely submission of trackers and alignment with annual savings commitments.
Identify obstacles, facilitate issue resolution, and ensure timely implementation.
Capital Investment Management
Partner with plant teams to validate capex proposals—including financials, cost/advantage analysis, IRR modelling, asset classification, budget alignment, and approvals.
Drive capex delivery through monthly performance tracking, forecasting, and Investment Order (IO) control.
Scrap Governance
Facilitate scrap committee meetings, coordinate scrap quotation sourcing, and support final decision-making in customer allocation based on revenue optimization.
Analytics & Business Partnering
Provide ad-hoc analysis, financial mo

📌 Manager Finance Business Partner Kolkata
🏢 PepsiCo
📍 Kolkata